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Hey, Pardon My Take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime. members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music on today's Pardon My Take. We have our yearly combine interview with Adam Schefter. Great time catching up with Schefty.
He gives us some nuggets about the league, we talk about his breaking news of Punxsutawney Phil. Maybe we get an answer to the DEZ tape. Stephen Shea gets a couple questions in because he's a Schefty superfan. We're at the combine.
We're going to talk a little combine. We got the report card for the NFLPA Hank's number two patriot of all time. Wow, that looked like I surprised you with that.
No, you weren't ready for it. We're going to do Fyre Fest of the week. We got a great Friday.
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So we're recording this on.
Leap Day, which really threw off my entire calendar. Happy birthday to us, by the way.
Eight years we've been doing this podcast, our second birthday today. that kind of blows my mind. Yeah, eight years.
High school and college. Yeah, whoa for some people. yeah, yeah, some people take longer.
It's crazy. I was looking back because I couldn't remember the exact timeline. The first episode debuted, I think on March 3rd or 4th, but we had recorded it on the Leap day in PFT's house in Austin. That's right, in my kitchen. Chris Jones's dick flopped out at the.
Combine. It was one of those things where it was meant to be, yeah, to have that story break. The morning that we record our first episode where a man's penis broke through his shorts while he ran the 40-yard dash at the combine. It felt like we were always destined to do the show.
And if you?
Put it into perspective. If you had told us eight years ago that the man's penis who flopped out at the combine was going to be a three-time Super Bowl champion, we probably would have said, okay.
Yeah, I would have said, Okay, he is a football player, he is going to play football. He's a good football player. So maybe he'll get on a good team and they'll win the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's a pretty big whoa. And then he would be a free agent.
Eight years from that to that day.
His free agency looms just crazy. That first episode was also recorded at 7 a..m. in the morning. Did we?
No, that was the second episode, no, we tried. We were like, we're going to record.
No, no, no. The first episode we recorded in PFT's House, yeah, in Like the Afternoon did.
We record some of it in the beginning, in the morning, possibly, oh, we recorded the majority.
Of it, I think, yeah, we did the segments at a normal time, right? We'll do the current event.
Stuff, yeah, people forget that the first week of Pardon My Take was a morning show, which was the worst idea ever. Because not only are we not morning people, even though actually this is, we should just make it. Every time we do, we're doing year anniversary, we have to record it in the morning, it's the worst idea ever. This is the morning right now, but we're not morning people. And then also, we found out very quickly that it was an unsustainable practice. Because we would wake up record at eight in the morning. And then I would just text Hank every five minutes for the next five hours.
Being like, Is the podcast ready? yeah, is it up? as stories were like, breaking.
We're like, wait, should we add to this? should we add to this? So the problem with doing?
Well, the easy thing about doing a morning show is that you have the topics that are already laid out for you. Because the storylines are already out there, then you get to react to like the storylines to the storylines. We're down in the trenches right after the Games are over, we're creating it, we're like, we're farming that, like pure, uncut cocaine of sports takes right after the Games.
And then somebody else turns into crack the next morning.
That's the easy part. We're down there doing the hard work. And I mean, credit to us for realizing it was a terrible idea almost immediately. That and the reggaeton horn, um, and, you know, changing on the fly and becoming a night podcast. Do you want to bring back a segment for today's?
Show we could do four good minutes, we could do hurt or injured. KylE FILIPOWSKI Uh, he is injured, severe injury. Jay Bill has told me that he was sore.
That's an injury I've, I've thought back.
About the J Bill, So I want to give. I know the AWS didn't love that interview because we don't usually do contentious interviews. And I give all the credit in the world for J Bills for just coming on. Because he probably knew it was going to go that way. I'm I need you guys to promise me that you'll stand up for me and with me next time. Someone says. I use the wrong word because I'm not as dumb as he was making me feel in that moment when he said I would use disingenuous.
Incorrectly. That's literally what I did. Yeah, I told him I was, I was like, when you said that.
You need to, like, do a screeching halt, because he made me feel really dumb. Well, that's the.
Duke in them, it's kind of like your default setting. if you go to Duke, it's like, Well, this person doesn't have a Duke education. So clearly he's not as smart as I am. But in that moment I did tell him, I was like, No, I think he did use the word correctly because J is smart enough to understand.
There's a difference between Kansas Storm in the court and a Butler Storm in the court, right? There's a difference between those two things. And also, yes, Kansas Football program, they've. The students have stormed the field many times.
I forgot to say that there's.
Two moments this week where I, I'm, like, Costanza walking away, being like, Damn, I should have thought of that. It's the Kansas Storms, the field and football. And Hank rooted for Tom Brady at the box when he was trying to bash Patrick Kane. That's true, those are the two, those are the two moments.
I was like, Damn it, you got to be smarter than that, Dan. It's very true. Yeah, Hank was the biggest, the biggest. Well, people were like, Dude, how do you not bring up Hank in the?
But he was a Bucks fan, and then he was a Cowboys fan. Yeah, that's true. He did turn his back on.
TOM BRADY That's true, but eight years, I love you guys. This has been the, I mean, we we, not to get sentimental, but it's obviously changed our life so significantly. To the point where it's like, I can't imagine if this didn't happen. We've had this conversation. PFT.
I think when we were at the Arizona Bowl, driving back, just the two of us were like, could you imagine if like this didn't happen? Like this is our lives, this is our life's work. Yeah, this is a it is.
It's our life, it's our legacy. Yeah, how about that? We're we, we, we. This podcast is our legacy.
We will, it will be in the first like line of the obituary. Unless one of us dies in a crazy way, then that would.
Probably be the first line. Or unless somebody, uh, commits multiple bank robberies and has a lawyer that goes on TV to use football analogies to describe your guilty plea. Chiefs of Hawks.
Lawyer Rocks That dude is awesome. I have a problem, though I really wish he didn't say his name, Xander, Xavier, Xavier, Xavier, something or other.
And I was like, that kind of ruins it. He's Chiefs of Hawks, but yeah, we had Chiefs of Hawks lawyer show up again, and he, uh, started by saying, Chiefs of Hawks, uh. The government has been blitzing. And Xavier's pocket was collapsing, but today Xavier stepped into the pressure. And then he continued to say, We know if he stumbled and he fell, he didn't let his knee touch the ground. That's that's when you know you got a.
Lawyer But he did take a plea when I think the very definition of a plea is like, kneeling, yeah.
Kneeling the ball, kneeling the ball out. So yeah, in a loss, he did in in a loss. You're down 40 and you're like, I don't want to get anyone injured, let's just kneel it out, yeah.
The.
The lawyer making all the football analogies is awesome, the one thing I would tweak about the lawyer. Cause every time he does a press conference, he loves hammering home the fact that his client is a football fan, which is cool. I wish we know too, yeah.
Just so you.
Know we? We do know he is chief, so that's the reason that we're talking about him. We wouldn't.
Be talking about him. Otherwise, I would like if the lawyer was a little bit like, more of a football guy. It still seems from time to time, like when he's talking. It's something that I think, that Chiefs of Holick writes these statements and then has the lawyer deliver them. When I would, I would prefer it if the lawyer was like a big football guy, like making these analogies on his own. But once he runs out of the ones that that Xavier gives to him, then he just goes back into lawyer speeches as his default.
I do, I like the theater of the lawyer being like, Okay, Chiefs of Holick, Uh, you guys know, he's a football fan, where here's how I'm going to describe him. Accepting a plea deal on multiple bank robberies to go to prison for years is by.
Just giving you a football game and it's smart, because, like you said, no one cares about this. If it was just a regular person, we, you know that football fans are tuning into. Anytime. This lawyer gets in front of a microphone, so he has dumbed it down to where, like, Okay, all right.
So he was getting a blitz, all right, he's stepping up in the pressure, I see it okay.
Yeah, didn't get a need in touch. All right. Yeah, you know what?
He's free.
You know, in Saudi Arabia, for stealing, they would take a handoff. I would like to see him expand his repertoire a little bit and dive a little bit deeper. But I think, if you were to ask Chiefs of Holick, would you trade? How many years in prison?
A lot.
A lot like, let's say, five years in prison.
Five to a lot.
Would you trade five years in prison for a dynasty? The answer for Chiefs of Holick is resounding yes. And I hope that they let him wear his wolf costume in jail. Yeah, that would be awesome.
That would be that, although I feel like there's some kinks that would probably be attracted to that, like, there's gotta be some furries in jail.
You think there are furries in prison?
Like, we've been waiting all our life for a furry to show up.
Yeah, he just gets humped all the time.
Yeah.
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Speaking of the chiefs, we had the NFLPA report card come out, which this rocks. So this is the second year in a row that they've done this. The commander's our last.
It feels personal.
It does feel personal, but you have a new owner who is also sitting in on every quarterback interview.
Can we take it? Let's take it one slide at a time, please.
Yeah, Josh Harris is sitting in on every quarterback interview at Combine Week.
Just directly behind.
Yeah, I will address all the accusations one at a time, but it's not fair to put both the report card and Harris on me at the same time.
That's, you're on the tepper spectrum.
It feels, it feels personal. The NFLPA report card.
No, no, no, let's talk about Josh Harris going to these interviews real quick. No, we're taking these one at a time.
We'll go back to it because I actually wanted to talk about the commanders. An F-minus is not a grade, it is, it does not exist.
49 or below.
It's an f, it's an f. That's what an f is. An f-minus is not a real, actual thing. That people get to have treatment of families, to get an F-minus in treatment of families. Seems like the very worst thing that you can say about somebody like, Okay, they've got a great strength coach, but they fucking hate children.
Yeah, they're bad parents of these families. I actually wasn't going to talk about the commanders much for this because it's almost like the sun will rise. The commanders will finish last in this poll. It wasn't anything new, so I do want to go back to Josh Harris real quick.
He's, he's sitting in all these interviews.
I think here's my spend zone. I think he's evaluating the people that he hired to evaluate.
He's evaluating the evaluators.
Yes, he's sitting there, he's watching, he's watching. Adam and Dan Quinn conduct the interviews with the quarterbacks to see what kind of questions they're asking. As part of his ongoing evaluation process of his own team.
So totally normal.
Very normal.
Very normal behavior from Josh Harris, not a control freak.
Very normal, very normal. I'm fine with it, I think it's good.
At what point do you think he will insert himself into the game plan meetings?
Never.
Will that be Thursdays or Fridays?
Never, never, it's not going to happen.
He's going to do the walkthrough, he's going to be like, Hey, you know what? let me let me just be under center for this walkthrough.
If you're Dan Quinn and the other coaches in these meetings, how do you not ask him for his opinion? And then do you have to take it? you have to take it, that's the whole point, you can't have him there.
What'd you think, Josh? And then how do you not listen to what he says?
He's going to be like, you're like, What do you think, Josh? He's like, I really like Drake May, and the guys in the room be like, Yeah, that's what I was going to say, Drake May.
I think that this is such a big decision for the future of the franchise that they want everybody in the room to be involved and on the same page. Going forward. I think it's like this is a decision that could possibly change the direction in a much. Maybe we'll get F pluses in 10 years if we draft the right quarterback.
What does he know? What does Josh Harris know?
He knows people.
He's a people person, he's probably a connector.
I would love it if Josh Harris was actually in the room asking them basketball questions.
You know what, though, PFT? Now that I'm thinking about it? Josh Harris might just be in the room practicing his handshake because he had that bad handshake, so maybe he's just getting reps in. It's the combine for him, too, where he's like, I got to learn how to shake hands again.
Joe Buck had the bad handshake.
Well, Josh Harris had the bad handshake.
I think it's completely normal. Robert Kraft was intimately involved in everything going on behind the scenes with the quarterbacks in New England. And his decision was like, I'm going to let Bill coach the team. But he was involved in all those conversations. I think that Josh Harris is any one of us. If you owned an N.F.L. team, you would want to be in the room, right?
Right, but that analogy doesn't really work. Because Robert Kraft would have, if he was the one making the decisions, he would have had Bledsoe start, and Josh Harris is now going to have whoever he wants to have start.
But it's the same thing where just because your owner's in the room doesn't mean he's the one making the decisions.
I think he's going to make some decisions.
Everything's going to be fine, everything's going to be wonderful. I choose to not dwell on this too much because I'm delusional.
You know what, I have good news for you. PFT. Okay, so back to the NFLPA report card. This reporter, Nick Cordy k-o-r-t-e. I just want to shout him out because he did good work with this.
On Twitter, Nick Cordy. He did a list of all the grades from the NFLPA and then categorized them with teams that the owner purchased the team and teams that the owner inherited the team. And I think it's nine out of the top ten packers not included because they're weird and they pretend that everyone owns a piece of the team. Nine out of the top ten, not excluding the packers. Were teams that the owner purchased the team, and then all the bad grades essentially were teams where the owners inherited the team. Basically fail sons and daughters who are driving whatever they inherited into the ground, which usually happens in all these situations.
So that's good for you.
It is a positive thing. The dolphins got first by a mile.
Dolphins and Vikings one and two. Easy, yeah.
The Dolphins report card was a minus a a a a a a minus a plus a a.
No notes.
Pretty good. The strength and conditioning line always stands out to me. Last year, the Ravens got an F in strength and conditioning. The Commanders are one good grade being an A for a strength and conditioning coach.
Seemed to me at first like, Okay, at least we have a great strength program, and then I thought about it more. I don't think I'd want my players to give my strength and conditioning coach an a. Because don't you want that guy to be the hardest person in the world on you? You kind of want to hate your strength coach a little bit, right?
Yeah.
Maybe you don't want an F, but getting a C plus or a B. You want that guy to push you to be super, super uncomfortable all the time.
Yeah, that's true.
If your strength coach is welcoming you with cookies and cupcakes every morning for your morning lift, and you're super happy with him, your best friend probably not that effective of a strength coach.
Yeah, you don't want to be well liked, okay? I think that might be more, also the facilities too, although that was in there as well.
The other funny things that came out was the Chiefs are winning Super Bowls. While everyone hates everyone except Andy Reid, they basically got like DS, CS, DS and FS in everything, but Andy Reid, who got an A plus, including the owner, got an F minus. Because the story goes that the Chiefs wanted a new locker room because their locker room was very outdated. They won the Super Bowl last year.
The players came back, they got a new locker room, and by that, I mean, they went from stools to chairs with backs to them. That was the big upgrade. It's huge. That, though, is crazy to me.
If you're Clark Hunt, the amount of money that Patrick Mahomes is pumping into your franchise right now, you should be wanting to spend every dollar on making it a fun place to be.
It should just be whatever Patrick Mahomes wants, correct?
It's crazy, I don't understand any of these. The report card is actually good, though, because they had a note like, Remember, the Jaguars had rats. Last year they got a new facility.
They don't have rats anymore, so it's actually changing things. Like even the Bengals, one of the cheapest owners in all of sports. They were complaining because they had to pay for their food. Now. He was like, Hey, guess what, I'm a billionaire.
I'm going to help you guys out, I'm going to give you free food, three free meals on Wednesdays, just Wednesdays.
Yeah, it's nice.
Yeah, just Wednesdays.
But that's a step in the right direction. That's such a hilarious compromise to make. That's essentially what we do at Barfield Sports. It's like, once a week you get a free meal.
I'll say this Wednesday is not a bad day, though, because Monday I think most guys they usually give them off Tuesday, they got to go in Wednesday. It's Hump Day, it's a shitty day. It's the No man's Land of the Week.
So three free meals, that's a perfect day to do it. I wouldn't want to do it on Friday. Friday is Friday.
Friday is Friday, and you want to kind of have your free plate lunch on Friday. Now. The Eagles, they gave their coach an A treatment of families. C Team travel C Now with team Travel, I think it's impossible to get a high grade in team travel.
Everyone hates travel.
The Patriots have two planes and they got a D.
They're probably old old planes, well, they're also team travel is-.
Who else had two planes?
The bills, uh. The Bucks had a line where they force their players to pay $1,700. I think it was $1,750 if they want to stay alone when they travel.
Yeah, that was one of the options that-.
That's crazy.
Per travel? yeah, per week.
Yeah.
$1,700.
Yeah.
That seems like a lot.
It does. It seems like somebody's pocketing some money off that.
Yeah, that definitely they're upcharging the hotel room.
It's one guy on the team that's like, Yeah, you got to pay me $1,700 for that.
Stephen Chey is here, so he's going to. I asked him to do a Fyre fest. Why don't you save your thoughts? You can respond to all these when we get to Fyre Fest. But the other funny wrinkles in this? The Broncos had a bunch of cars stolen from them at training camp.
That was kind of cool.
Cars.
Yeah.
Yeah, that is cool.
What was it? There were multiple cars stolen from the parking lot of the mandated team hotel during training camp.
I love that.
I love that.
Someone's doing fast and furious with the Broncos cars.
It's probably just future. Yeah, he just went up there with his crew, yeah.
And then the other one. That was because the timing of this. I think they did it in the summer and early fall. So most of the coaches got A's and B's. Arthur Smith got a C, Ron Rivera got a C. The only one who got a D was Josh McDaniels.
So it's good to know that, even in a blind poll, everyone fucking hates Josh McDaniels.
I love that a lot, yeah.
It's actually Josh McDaniels grade actually validates this entire poll, where they're like, Yeah, they're giving honest answers. Josh McDaniels is a fucking douchebag. He got a D.
So I noticed a lot of really bad grades. When it comes to the locker room, like across the board, players are not happy with their locker room. But my theory is that college locker rooms have gotten so out of control. Good that it's a step back. When you go to the N.FL college, coaches should be like, Yeah, you can go pro and make millions of dollars, but you don't get the barber chair.
Yeah, the chiefs don't have a slide.
Yeah, there's no water, so there's no waterfall.
Before Nil, that was the only thing they had.
Yeah, it's true.
They're like, we can't spend money on players, we'll just get a new locker room.
I remember I went into, maybe it was like four or five years ago, I went to Clemson's training facility. And they had a literal slide that we weren't allowed to use. But I basically bullied Brandon Walker to use it. And then he got yelled at right away, which is a very funny visual. Just a big old man going down a slide and then a training staff member being like, Hey, don't use that slide. But they told me they're like, Yeah, we just opened this like two years ago and it's already outdated, yeah.
So you're right, like, the college locker rooms and the training facilities are insane.
It's an arms race. It's like every year before Nil. Every single year, teams would put all their expendable money into upgrading the locker room. It's like players are like, can we please have a thousand dollars a month to buy food? They're like, Guess what, we got a new waterfall.
Yup.
Putt putt, yeah, putt putt, let's go.
We're going to. There was a batting cage. But yeah, the uh, I love this N.FL PA poll, it's it's great, just because it's just a bunch of, uh, anonymous snitching. And you, if you're an owner, you have to dread this. And I also, I still will never understand, and maybe this is just how I'm wired. But like, if I had billions of dollars, I would spend a good portion of that money to make sure that the assets that I have on my team are very well taken care of.
Yeah, Pat, maybe that's easier said than done, but you Patrick Holmes would get whatever.
He wants, well, he got a back to his chair.
Yeah, that's pretty nice.
That's huge.
Uh, the Patriots got some shitty grids too. Hank, I know they got bad grades with coaching staff, bad grades with the ownership too.
Ownership travel, but that's where it's like, it's hard for me to really believe the travel thing when they have two planes.
Yeah.
So that kind of makes the whole list.
What, what's your thing with two planes?
He just wants two planes.
You have two planes.
How can travel be bad if you have your literal own plane?
Like, well, they're probably old planes.
They might be.
What does that even mean? Like they could be planes from 20 years ago? I want a plane where I'm able to lay down.
They could be a Boeing Seven 37 max.
Yeah, did you think about that?
No, I think they're big ass, nice planes, I've seen them.
Okay, um, all right, anything else? uh, from this, I mean, it's, yeah, it's great that it comes out right now.
The the leading sentence of the commander's locker room issue, uh, was. Multiple sewage leaks contributed to their f minus. I would say that that probably does it. One sewage leak is is an f. That's I'll give you the f minus on the locker room because of the multiple sewage leaks. All the other f minuses, I think, are personal.
Yeah, the bucks also had bugs in their showers. Yikes.
That's Florida, though.
Yeah, that is Florida. There also was the everyone made the same joke at the same time, which it's a funny joke. But I think the chargers, uh, there was a line about the chargers charging extra for a daycare. And everyone was like, Well, if you have Phil Rivers and Antonio Camardi, you need to do this. Yeah, so, um, congrats to everyone for making a very funny joke.
It's a good joke.
Yeah, it's a good joke. Uh, all right, what else we got going on? We, you see, the college football playoff is already ready to change again.
I saw that, yeah.
Rules, I like it.
I don't like it because I liked the first iteration that they came out with. Now it's starting to get too confusing, they're starting to jeff D loafy the college football playoffs.
What are they changing?
They're going to change it to 14.
They're going to give the Big 10 and the SEC three automatic qualifiers. So the top three in each of those conferences will automatically ban the ACC and the UH. And the Big 12 will get two automatic qualifiers, and then there'll be one automatic qualifier from the group of five.
I don't like that, I don't like that at all, I like the old way.
So here's the only thing that I like about it because I was talking we. We are in Indy, so we get to meet a bunch of people. Um, I, I met Ross Dellinger, he's Yahoo, uh, sports, college football reporter, really good guy.
We're going to have him on the show this fall, cause he knows a shitload about college football. He was saying, cause I was like, why would they play Conference Championship? like, why would they have conference championships?
If the top three go like, there's no reason to play that extra game. And he? It was a hypothesis because there's nothing set in stone. He said that it will eventually get to a point where it's the fourth and the third will play for that third spot, which that kind of rocks. So if you're a fourth place team in the Big 10, you play in the Conference Championship or whatever they're going to call it. You play in an extra game to like, it's like a play in to the playoffs.
I get that. But also we're setting up these rules for maybe 10, 20 years down the line. These rules are still going to exist. And the college football landscape changes every like two to three years.
They'll find it.
So it's like, who knows what the conferences will eventually look like then? And giving three automatic qualifier, I don't know. It feels I like, I like the way it was set up, it was easier to understand for dummies like me.
I agree, but they're they're going to do something that the. I think the initial plan was like the Big 10 and the SEC were like, we get four teams automatic, so they're playing a little strong arm with them. I still think it's going to be no different than a cable to streaming back to cable, where we're bundling all the streaming. Now they're going to get to a point where they just start making like, regional divisions, and it's like, well, okay.
So Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA are in a division. Why don't we just call it the Pack four, and then we'll get there and then we'll be happy?
Yeah, so this new proposal, it's not ratified yet, right?
No, it wouldn't have until at least 2026.
So 24 and 25 we'll have the current college football setup.
Okay.
What is this year?
This year is the current college football set with 12.
Okay, yeah.
24 25, we'll have the 12 teams, the four buys their automatic championship winners, so it still matters for the championship game. And then the other at large. And then this is just something they've been. They're going to do it because essentially what they're doing is they're going to the Big 10. And the SEC are going to strong on everyone else. Cause they are the the the number one and two asset in college football.
And they're like, we need our teams guaranteed to be in because they have all the power.
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That's just how it's going to work.
Um, can we do a Hank's on the streets? Sure, or Hank explains it.
I like it.
What's going on with Meek Mill? Yeah, so I just pulled up Meek Mill's timeline to pull up the relevant tweets that he fired off yesterday. Some all timers. He's putting on a masterclass right now in terms of retweeting.
To flood the timeline, I think he's got like 30 or 40 retweets in a row.
He's got new music coming out.
That's so, that's what's happening right here.
So the Meek Mill, he's trending because he's got a fire new album coming out.
He's independent, he's putting out music independently, so they're trying to take him down, according to Meek Mill.
He's got some serious heaters. One of them was when I got a girl around me, I'm fucking her twice a day lol. Ask some of your favorites pussy.
Don't control me. But it's like a high one. Love to the gay people, but that juicy pussy do it for me. I done ran red lights to get that feeling. You're all weird on here, like devils.
Lol.
How much do you guys like pussy? I love love pussy.
I think I would go, I think I would go through yellow light, I don't know if I'd run a red.
You don't want to be said, Would you like cameras? That's not worth it. I would speed, I would drive over the speed limit, yeah.
I would do for that goose, for that juicy pussy.
And then he also had, Uh, I'm from Philly, I don't do coke or freaky ass Molly. Nobody won't even offer me coke because I'm that heavy. Does that mean fat or is it?
No, it's just like he, he's such a non-coke guy, like you wouldn't even think to be like, Hey, you want some of this?
Oh, cause I assume that was just a fat thing, where it's like you don't offer a fat guy. Coke is like, they're not doing it.
They might die fat, no, it might kill them.
If they, if they, if they did coke, they would be skinnier.
Yeah, it's like, why waste your time with this guy? What does I'm from Philly have to do with that, like I'm from Philly? So no one offers me coke. I don't think that's how it works.
And then, yeah, he said, no man or what would ever approach me about gay activity in the whole place. Don't get flipped. Woke up seeing this on every blog, like they know I'm coming, cause there's a there's a court filing.
Yeah, someone sued Diddy, and there's been obviously a lot of allegations with Diddy, the last, I don't know, three or four months along these lines. And someone sued him, one of his former workers or colleagues. And in the lawsuit, it straight up said like he knew like he was there when Diddy had sex relations with. Redacted and redacted. And then I don't know how court filings work.
And it doesn't really make sense for them to redact the names, cause at the bottom of the page it had, like, an answer key that said it said no, it said redacted. Person one is a rapper from Philadelphia who dated Nicki Minaj.
Redacted Person two is an RNP singer who just performed the Superbowl.
So clearly, Three is a patriot fan who who produces a podcast.
Yeah, no, it wasn't, that wasn't in there, but clearly Usher and P Diddy were the, I mean, Usher and Meek Mill were the two redact names. And then everyone has been talking about it, and Meek Mill is now. Just, you know, got it. Claiming that they're trying to take him down because he's got a. Before his albums, he was on a label.
Cause he's got guy friends.
Now he's independent and he's trying to put out music independently, and this is the industry trying to take him down.
They're trying to take him down cause he's too straight. Yeah, like he. When he has one love to the gays, though, he has sex with women twice a day.
Yep.
It could not be any more clear than that.
He's not addicted to it either.
No, it's a high for him. One love to the gay people, but that juicy pussy do it for me.
Yeah.
That's such an awesome thing to just type and then hit send on to me.
Uh, all right, so that's hank Hot in the streets brought back a segment for it. Kyle Fopowski Hurt or injured? What bullshit that was by dukes.
The Dukies he was never even close to hurt. Jay Billis would tell you that a soreness is an injury.
It is, it is.
Then I'm literally tweeted.
I'm never doing a comment again.
Cause I said, I might, I'd say I'm contemplating retirement, yeah.
But I haven't retired.
I'm always contemplating retirement, yeah.
So I did always on my mind when I get, listen, Sundays in the fall, when we're working until 2am, I get out of bed. I'm like a running back, it's like, hard to go down the stairs. I'm like, Should I hang it up?
Yep, yeah.
Bloggers fall in love with the game again come Thursday.
We aged like presidents, four years is like 10 years for us.
We've been doing this for two terms.
When I woke up on on Tuesday morning, I was I was embarrassed to say, like, my legs were very sore from jumping three times. Yeah, I was. It was pathetic.
I thought I was having a heart attack at one point because my chest was so sore and I was like, Oh, no, you just benched. For the first time in five years. That's why you think you're having a heart attack.
Yeah, I also, um, I went on Pittsburgh Sports Radio TV Love. Those guys went on there this morning and they were, they were looking through the headlines of the combine and the way.
They asked me. They're like, So, I see that Barstool Sports had a combine and you're the winner of the combine. It felt like a big slap in the face to me, and also to Barstool Sports. But it ruled.
Because I had, like, a proud, what do you mean? Oh, yeah, you were.
I had a proud friend.
Hank, the hater coming at me. Get your facts right, Hank.
I had a proud friend.
You unathletic fuck.
Last night, PFT. Cause. The scout came up to me and was like, I saw your guys combine. I was like, what'd you think? And he's like, Uh, I think you guys are in the right profession, and he's like, I saw the beginning.
Did we'll end up winning? And I was like, No, PFT won.
Nice.
Cause the wonderlick.
Cause the wonderlick and the vertical leap, which was completely real.
Um, there was, uh, yeah, you can jump higher than Francis and Mark Titus.
Well, the way that it works with Vertical leap is not how high you can touch big cat, it's how high your feet get off. I know, yeah.
I still think Titus probably can jump higher.
I didn't say otherwise.
I, I touched rim last year, but I've gotten like, I've lost so much athleticism. I just feel in my body in the last year, I don't know what's going on.
I have no. I never had explosive, fast twitch muscles. I've always had slow twitch muscles, but they've gotten slower.
Yeah, my fast Twitch is very slow.
I've also gotten to a point where I don't I don't stretch before doing anything, because stretching is just more time. You can get injured.
Yeah, well, you can't pull fat, right?
That's facts. John Daly Is that John Daly?
I think, so, yeah, maybe David Ortiz, I don't know.
Or, uh, coach, uh, Wiley, the guy, uh, for the Browns.
Yeah.
Could have been him, yeah, Wiley.
You didn't see the troops stretching before they stormed the beach at Normandy, it's fact.
Um, all right, I have one other thing. Before we get to Hank's list, you might have something else to pfD the Tyree kill lawsuit.
Yeah.
That's something.
It is something.
So Tyree Kill, Uh, we'll say better foot, way better football player than guy as good.
Of a guy, he is much, much, much better at playing football.
He's being sued, though, by a woman, uh, who maybe broke her leg or hurt her leg. And um. The reason why this happened, allegedly, is it was a British social media influencer named Sophie Hall who put her son into Tyree Kills UH football camp. But before the football camp started, Tyree Kill invited her and her son over to his house. And he was running drills.
So it goes, Hall claims. After she made her way to Hill's home, he asked her to participate in some football drills. During a training session he was having in his backyard, Hill allegedly asked her to rush against him in a defensive line versus offensive line one-on-one style workout, according to Hall. She shoved the Super Bowl champion backward, which caused him to be embarrassed.
Mr Hill's attitude changed and became angry, Hall alleges. Hill then flipped the drill around so he could rush against her. And after a couple reps, she said he'll charge into her violently and with great force, causing her to suffer a right leg injury.
Um, this sounds like it was a football drill.
It sounds like I would if I was the, uh, football drill, what do you? You get hurt?
In football drills.
If I was the Buffalo Bills, or if I was, uh, any other team in that division, I would consider signing Sophie to shut Tyree kill down, it says. Unfortunately, after getting humiliated in front of friends and family. When he was knocked backwards during a friendly football lesson by his friend Sophie Hall, Tyreek became enraged and forcefully and purposefully shoved Miss Hall, severely fracturing her leg.
But that's also it was a football drill.
Yeah.
Sounds like she didn't get her feet moving, yeah.
Maybe bad technique on her part.
Yeah, I don't know, this is just, I mean, I Tyree kill, getting sued for this is, it's quite something, yeah.
Well, why do you think he invited her to his house? Was he like, I think your son's a good football player, I'd like to give him extra lessons. Probably, right?
Let me, uh, look her up and see, let me see if she looks like, follow her on Instagram. Um, let's see.
Yeah.
Yeah, he invited her for football, for football reasons. football reasons only definitely.
Whenever I see this is probably a bad for me to admit, but when I see in. Named in a lawsuit a party who's described first and foremost as being an influencer, that's always a red flag for me.
Yeah, I would say so.
Sophie Hall.
She was like, a nice woman.
Let me see, Oh my, I want to see how nice.
I had it and then it's loading. Yeah, um, oh, actually, let me take this back. So she seems like a nice woman, but she also seems like she could play, she could play nose tackle.
Okay, yeah.
She's, she's got some curves.
She's she can play nose, I'll put it this way, uh, Bill Belichick would look at drafting her in the first round.
I'm not surprised she was able to blow up the line of scrimmage on Tyree.
She's got a motor, yes.
It doesn't quit. Uh, okay, hank.
Yes.
You're number two, number two.
Yeah.
Do you want me to just go into it?
Oh, you know who I saw last night? who? who? I told them I was like, Hey, Hank's dropping his top 10 patriots.
I don't know if you're on it.
Brable.
Nope.
Think horses welker? Yeah.
Wes Welker And he was a little upset. I mean, we spent a whole weekend.
We did spend a whole weekend together, the British come together. He is a great guy. He did look jacked, uh, they were showing him in one of the episodes.
He was ripped when he was playing for the Patriots. No rings, though. I mean, the the great, great dude, what you know? was star struck when we got to hang out with them. That was like 2013, early Marshall days.
I was, I was geeking out, Oh, yeah.
You? We spent the whole weekend with Wes Welker. And then in the last second, Hank was like, Can I get a picture? We just hung with him, but then it was also the worst hang because, uh, we went to, Yeah, Breeders Cup with him.
And the next horse race he went to was a Kentucky Derby, where he got busted for Molly. And I was like, I must be the biggest loser ever. Cause he was like, he probably brought some molly to the Breeders Cup and was like, these guys suck.
Yeah.
Maybe I'm not going to waste my molly on them.
Maybe he thought you were from Philly and knew not to offer you guys drugs.
Yeah, but he was, he was part of those teams. They lost, they lost the Giants, it was, it was a it was a down era for the Patriots. A lot of narratives, a lot of people saying, you know, Brady's washed, Brady and Belichick tend to break up the team.
They only won three Superbowls. Disappointment, yada yada yada. This player came in, changed everything, just vibes wise. He, he, you know. I think I was 18 or 19 when he when he signed with the team, so I was an 18 19 year old.
He was everything Rob Gronkowski, Gronk Spike, freak of nature, the most fun player, you know, non-Tom Brady, but just every everything he did was fun. His attitude, you know, I've been lucky to to party him and his brothers like they're as fun as advertised.
No, it's Rob Gronkowski, Oh, cause Aaron Hernandez is his brother, yeah.
Yeah, also a fun guy, he's fun.
No, but the whole, the whole family is great, great people. Unbelievable player, greatest tight end of all time.
I think he might be the easiest player to root for. If you're a fan of that team like Rob Gronkowski, it's impossible to not absolutely love the guy if you're a Patriots fan.
And he is what he is like. There's no, there's no shtick, there's no, he's putting on an act, he's just he just loves life.
Chicks football beers spike, Yeah.
That's it, yeah.
That's it, that's the whole thing.
That's how he probably that's going to be his Hall of Fame speech.
Yeah, he'll definitely try to, he'll definitely try to spike something that will break.
The bust He'll try to spike his own bust in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, Gronk was. He was unguardable and also the funnest person in the world. Like I, I, I would agree with you putting him at number two.
I think that's a good choice.
First night, first night, we all hung out together. We were with, you know, members of the Gronkowski family. I've met a lot of them over the years, hung out with them a bunch of times. Like I said, it's like, they're, they're as fun as advertised. Like they, you know, they live the life that you think they live, which is which is great.
That's like, it's fun to see he was such a good player.
It's, it's, it's gronk.
Honorable mention.
Honorable mention Uh, because, you know, I'm still salty, that the yada, yada yada. 2003 2004. He was only on the team for a short amount of time, but he was, you know, an unbelievable running back in 2004. Corey Dillon.
Oh, Clock killing Corey Dillon.
1600 yards dominated. Like he, you know, Patriots never really had a running back. that was, as you know, superstar running back. He was kind of like Rainy Moss before Rainy Moss, too. Or when they signed him, it was like, you know, trouble off the field and like, he might not be a good fit for the team, but they got him for nothing.
And then he just dominated that season and he was good. 2005, Uh, as well, so yeah, Corey Dillon.
The era of big running backs.
What's that?
Yeah, okay, good job.
But he wasn't even in the documentary like, It's crazy, and he was that was, you know, 21 wins in a row. He was the star. Running back 1600 yards doesn't even get a highlight in there.
Crazy.
How often do you think Wes Welker? Somebody come up to him and it's like, Congrats on all those Superbowls, like they think that he was, he was on a Superbowl champ.
Probably a lot. I mean, it's pain. He, he had, you know, he had it, he had that drop like it, it. It probably pains them.
What do you think hurts Wes Welker more? When someone says congrats on the Superbowls or someone's like, Hey, that catch you made against the Falcons was insane.
Yeah, probably that one.
Probably that one. Well, the and and the clip, the the Wally Pip clip is so funny. yeah, the Bella track. He's like, Yeah, you know, Wally Pip.
He's like, just give it to him then.
Yeah, yeah.
And he did it.
Oh, he can have it, yeah.
Yeah, damn.
Uh, okay, do we have anything else before we get to Schefter? I think we're good to go to Schefter. Great interview with Schefter Combine Week.
And then we'll, we'll finish on the other side with, uh, Fire Fest, which I think we have a couple of stories from Combat week. Uh, pft. You want to do an ad real quick before we get to Schefter?
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And now here's Adam Schefter.
Yeah.
Okay, we now welcome on one of our favorite interviews of the year. It is Adam Schefter at the Combine, our yearly check-in with Schefty. Uh, first of all, thanks for making this a tradition. We appreciate it.
And my first question is a tough question.
I wouldn't want it any other way than to start like that.
Where's the DEZ tape? No, uh, we'll get to that later. How the how the fuck did you get the punxsutawney Phil? Breaking news like, Are you? Is there a point where you're like, I've got enough, cause you did the NBA?
You've obviously owned the NFL and now you're doing little rats in in Western Pennsylvania. Seeing their shadows like you, enough is enough. You gotta be like, I don't need this beat, but you got it, you broke the news.
Well, I appreciate that. That was probably the biggest story I've had this year, I would say really proud of that. One stands on its own.
You scooped El Nino, Yeah, how did that happen?
I had some plants there in Pennsylvania that were done and set up well in advance. The they knew the importance of that story to our country.
Yes, they knew.
And they knew that if they want that news dispensed on a big platform, they knew where to go with it. Yeah, and so somebody there is kind enough to keep me in mind, like anybody on any N.FL story, shot me the news. And now we're waiting for Spring to get her in it.
I don't think the message has hit Indianapolis yet.
Yeah, I've noticed.
It's pretty cool. Definitely not, definitely not.
You know that WoJ is going to have a guy in Punxsutawney next year.
That's cool, you know? I'm good with that, Woj.
I love Woj, he's all over things, I love information, I love stories.
Like, I love how much you love information.
Wait, do you do you and Woj ever sit down and like, Cause it's very few people that you can relate to?
Let me say this, yeah, WoJ knows me. I would say, well, professionally speaking, better than my wife.
Yeah.
And it's not close.
Whoa, you got? I didn't know you guys were an item, damn.
We can understand exactly.
Yeah.
Like, he'll call me sometimes, like, God, I'm working on this trade, I'm waiting for this, waiting for that, and sometimes I can say, do this or do that.
Or sometimes I'll just say, Hey, you just got to wait now. And I know what he's feeling, I know what he's going through. I've been through the things that he's been through, He's been through the things I've been through.
We go through them at various points of the year and I love getting a text from WOJ. We'll be like, God, I'm waiting on one right now.
Right, yeah, that feeling, that fee. is that the best feeling right before?
By the way, like, we also talk about the business, what it's like, talk about, you know, life at ESPN, talk about you know how long can you do this?
Ooh, how long can you do this?
As long as you can do it, as long as I'll have you.
But do you feel yourself slowing down at all? Have you have you had a moment in the last year where you're like, old chef? He would have had that.
No, that that's not how I feel, okay, I still feel. I still love the information, like I was going after the groundhog.
Yeah.
I was going hard after him and nothing was going to stand in my way.
Your fingers getting slower. What age do you hit your prime as an insider?
That's a great question.
Yeah, great question.
You know, I think it just changes. I think what happens over time is you care, um, less about some of the smaller things. And you recognize a lot of the noise that's just out there and I don't really care about that noise. Like the other day, when Peter King retired, he said something. I put that on my phone because I thought it was very interesting.
I broke the news. A big cat, I thought he would cry.
You thought he cried? Yeah.
Uh, well, he's. He told me that Peter King died.
So, but he didn't, he didn't die. Fortunately, no, but he, he basically had enough. But he said something, he wrote one line in the column and I'm looking for it, cause I wrote it down.
I wrote it down, That's plagiarism, Adam.
You could copy and paste.
Yeah, it's in my phone, I'm just looking for right now. Hold on a second here.
I think he's going to get us or something. Yeah, I'm on my alert. No, you didn't bring any of your lackeys, although Stephen Shay could be compromised.
He wrote The media has been conditioned to keep throwing logs in the fire day after day after day, when absolutely nothing is happening. I'm thrilled to not contribute to that anymore.
Yeah, no, it's true. When there's when you, when you have a lull or a dead period, there's the natural inclination to be like, Well, something's got to happen, I got to report something.
And I don't really care about that. Like he talked about, he had no interest in the head coach hiring cycle, I couldn't be more interested.
You're right.
You know, free agency couldn't be more interested. You know, we'll get past the draft and there'll be throwing camps and conditioning camps and OTas.
That you're not.
Interest level not real high.
Yeah, so it's interesting because the last couple of years, I feel like when you're talking about throwing logs on a fire, the discussion has always. We're just like, let's talk about DAK again, let's see where, where, where are we at with DAK right now?
Let's rank some quarters. Dak is duralog.
Is he elite? but I feel like Dura Elite is what we should call him, because, like, we're always having that discussion. But I feel like this season is actually the time where it is interesting to talk about Dak and his contract and what the Cowboys are going to be doing with it. So I'm going to use this as an opportunity to ask you, Is Dak Prescott going to sign an extension this year with Dallas Cowboys or is he going to be a free agent?
I think they have to get something done with him, I mean, he's got a 59 and a half million dollar cap number. They want to get a big deal done with C.D. Land, they want to get a big deal done with Micah Parsons, they want to upgrade their roster.
Jerry Jones himself has said They're all in well. How can you be all in if your quarterback is taking up that much of the cap? And by the way, if you don't get it done with him, then after the season you can't tag him right, so he could just leave.
Right, couldn't Dak also say, like, I don't want to sign an extension, I want it free agency.
I think he's got too much love and respect for the organization, although there have been some mixed messages coming out of it.
Yeah, from his camp, from his brother.
Yeah, well, from both sides.
Yeah.
Even Jerry Jones, like, Was that a shot? We're only going to go as far as Dak takes us.
Yeah.
Well, so he didn't take you past the Packers in the divisional round? Like, I don't know. It was kind of weird to me that he said that. So in a way, I felt like Dak was being called out. And I don't know how that's going to impact the talks, but to me, they have to get something done with him, they have to.
Yeah, so you mentioned something there, the coaching cycle that you're very interested in. Yeah. Why did Mike Vrabel and Bill Belichick not get jobs?
Well, Mike Vrabel, I think, would have gotten the Chargers job if Jim Harbaugh had gotten onto the plane to go to Atlanta. Because I think Jim would have had a decent chance to get the Falcons. Which obviously, one move impacts another, and I think Vrabel had a great interview with the Chargers and they really liked him and it just was one of those things. It just didn't go his way in this cycle. I think the fact that he's out there, the fact that Bill's out there, I think it speeds up the coaching firing cycle.
Next season, when teams are ordinarily making moves, we get to Thanksgiving. usually sometimes there's a move that's made early in the year. One stray firing, Oh, Carolina fired Frank Reich.
But usually teams wait till after Thanksgiving and then they start trickling in. I think it wouldn't shock me if we started getting stuff like late October, early November. Because teams want to go talk to Vrabel, they want to go talk to Belichick. I mean, Pete Carroll's still out there, he should be in that conversation with the attitude he has.
But Vrabel, I think, came close in Los Angeles.
Belichick came close in Atlanta. At one point, people thought it was going to happen, and I think that there were just different factions and different groups. And some people wanted him, and then other people who didn't wound up prevailing. He doesn't get the Atlanta job. There were conversations with Washington at one point.
It didn't happen, Washington was going to go in a different direction. They did talk to him, so it just didn't happen. And I think when you look at some of the openings, I think these teams weren't looking for those kinds of guys this cycle.
But we'll get seven, eight, nine openings next year again. And I would think with the stature of these guys and their accomplishments, they'll be top of the list. And I think they'll be in play next year.
Okay, one more coaching question, and this is going to hurt me. Did the Bears ever even reach out to Jim Harbaugh?
I don't believe they did.
God damn it.
I don't believe he was in play there and I think he was Chargers Falcons.
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